Chapter 105: Taking Charge of the Artillery Yard
After some parade, almost half of the big girls and daughters-in-law in Lin'an City recognized Xinke Tanhualang! Naturally, Li Xiang had many more flowers and fruits on his body than the rest of the Jinshi!
The imperial court made a decree, and the new branch jinshi gave him half a year of leave, and each went home to worship his ancestors, sweep the tomb, mention the teleprompter, meet the villagers, and return to his hometown in fine clothes, and then he will officially take office as an official. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info
However, the top three in the first class can be awarded immediately, without going through the assessment of the officials. If you give a fake photo, you can take office immediately. So within a few days, Li Xiang unexpectedly took up the post of chief envoy of artillery production under the Ordnance Superintendent, and was the official of the seventh grade.
Wen Yunsun, the champion of the Lang, was only awarded a loose official of the eighth grade, and the so-called loose official is an official who has no real position, which is naturally because the emperor took a fancy to Wen Yunsun and wanted to recruit him as a concubine.
Lu Xiufu was awarded the post of Jixian Hall repairer. Then Zhao Zhen was awarded the post of Kuizhou Governor, so he had to leave Lin'an Mansion and go to Sichuan.
Most of the rest of the jinshi are awarded a loose official, waiting for the actual shortage to be filled.
On the contrary, the official of Zhuangyuanlang is not as big as Tanhualang, and now there are more discussions in Lin'an City, including many ministers in the court and the central government, who don't understand why the emperor did this, is it because Li Xiang invented the flush toilet, biogas, and artillery? It's also possible to think about it, after all, this Li Xiang is an all-rounder, not only good at poetry and books, but also in the so-called science, it can also be compared to a talent like Shen Kuoxianggong.
In particular, isn't the oil and gas exploitation proposed by Li Xiang in the palace examination exactly the kind of oil that Shen Kuo Xianggong said?
Indeed, Shen Kuo was the first person in the world to propose the name oil and the first to record oil extraction. At that time, Shen Kuo was in Yanzhou Ren Zhizhou, and recorded in his Mengxi Writings: There is a kind of oil in Yanzhou and Yanzhou, which is Gaonu County Fat Water, and Fat Water is Oil. Oil is produced at the water's edge, mixed with sand and springs, and flows out intermittently. Local residents use pheasant tail feathers to dip it up and collect it into clay pots. The oil was very much like varnish, and it burned like a torch, and it emitted a very thick smoke, and the tent turned black with the smoke. I guessed that this smoke could be used, so I tried to sweep its bituminous coal and use it to make ink, which was as lustrous as black lacquer, and even pine ink could not compare to it. So they made it in large quantities and marked it with the words 'Yanchuan Stone Liquid'. This kind of ink will definitely be widely popular in the world in the future, but I just started making it. ”
According to the existing historical data, Shen Kuo was the first person to use oil, he made ink from the smoke and dust produced after the combustion of oil, and Shen Kuo's "Yanzhou Poems" described the grand scene of Yanzhou oil exploitation to form smoke and dust: "It snowed in Erlang Mountain, and Xuan Zhuo Qionglu learned from the people. The plain clothes are not old in winter, and the stone smoke is like Luoyang dust. ”
It's a pity that using oil to burn to make ink seems to be a bit wasteful, but the strategy written by Li Xiang in the palace test is to refine this oil into fuel, and the remaining viscous things are used to make concrete and pave roads.
As for natural gas, it is also very useful, in fact, in ancient China, natural gas extraction has a long history. In the 3rd century B.C., Li Bing, a water conservancy expert who served as the Taishou of Shu County at the time, dug wells in the area of Qionglai in present-day Sichuan Province to extract brine, and used the natural gas obtained in the process of mining salt wells to boil salt. In the Eastern Han Dynasty, the salt wells of Sichuan have spread to more than 10 counties in Linqiong, Chengdu, Nanchong and other places, and the use of natural gas for cooking and boiling salt has also spread to the above-mentioned areas.
Since the 13th century, the ancient working people have been able to develop and utilize the shallow natural gas in Zigong, Fushun and Rong counties in Sichuan Province on a large scale. In order to overcome the difficulties of transporting natural gas and to prevent the damage caused by leakage, we have creatively created a transportation pipeline called "Jin" by using bamboo and wood, which are readily available in the local area, in the absence of metal materials.
As a traverser, how could Li Xiang, who still has a super plug-in, not know this? Therefore, in his palace trial strategy, these are also explained in detail, not only Emperor Lizong was surprised to see it, but also a traitor like Ding Daquan, in fact, he also understood how great the strategy written by Li Xiang was to the Great Song Dynasty.
Therefore, Li Xiang conferred the post of chief envoy of the artillery production of the ordnance superintendent, in the opinion of Emperor Lizong, it is not an exaggeration, and even he felt that Li Ying should be able to give a greater official position, such as the young superintendent of the ordnance superintendent, but that would be too eye-catching! After all, it has suddenly crossed the height that it took many years for the previous generations to reach the height of Tanhualang, and it is strange not to attract criticism.
Wen Yunsun, Lu Xiufu and others said goodbye and went home, and returned to their hometowns.
However, Li Xiang did not take leave, he knew that time was pressing, and only by taking office as soon as possible, striving to make artillery and rocket artillery as quickly as possible, and equipping the Great Song army, could it be possible to deal with the attack of the Mongol army in the near future.
Li Kang was very happy, his son reached the seventh grade when he first took up his official position, which was a little lower than himself! Now the son has earned face for himself, not only his colleague Wang Jin next door began to scold himself, but also encouraged Yuru to come over every day, that is, the officials who will be imprisoned have a better attitude towards themselves.
Li Xiang was the first official of the seventh grade, and the family also celebrated a lot, although there were only five people, but Li Xiang felt that this way could he feel at home.
As soon as the first month passed, Li Xiang went to the ordnance supervision alone to report, and he went to work, and Li Xiang felt like a dream! This time I went to work, and it felt completely different from my previous life! In his previous life, he was a hill ba, who let others call and drink, and he didn't dare to complain, just for the meager salary of two or three thousand yuan a month.
But now, he is only eighteen years old, and he is already a seventh-rank official, and he still holds the title of Tanhualang, and he is in charge of an artillery production institute with a scale of thousands of people! It is not worse than the boss of any large enterprise in the previous life, after all, the status of the Great Song Dynasty's ordnance supervision is still quite high, just like the large military enterprises in the later generations.
Of course, the income of the seven-rank official is also quite a lot, which is equivalent to the annual salary of hundreds of thousands in later generations.
The night before, he was overly excited, and he was pulled by Xue'er and Xiu'e, and he didn't go to sleep until midnight, so Li Xiang was still a little sleepy in the morning, but when he thought that he was a dignified seven-rank official today, and there were thousands of subordinates, he suddenly came to his senses.
Wang Daquan, the supervisor of the Ordnance Prison, and Shen Rong, the young prisoner, have already received a notice that Li Xiang, the Tanhualang, will come to report on his appointment today.
For Li Xiang, these two are like gods in their hearts, both of them know that Li Xiang is the emperor's favorite person, and in terms of weapon manufacturing, they are countless times more powerful than them, so both of them are actually ready to treat Li Xiang as a guest, and they don't really treat Li Xiang as a subordinate.
So the two of them led a group of officials to wait in front of the armory prison early in the morning!